Lawson ex rel. Lawson v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Lake Charles

PONDER, Judge.

Defendant has appealed suspensively from the trial court’s award of damages allegedly arising from the following circumstances.

On June 26, 1972, Mrs. Violet Lawson purchased, among other items, two cartons of Coca-Cola from Baham’s I.G.A. store in Lake Charles. It was stipulated that Ba-ham’s only source of the beverage was the defendant. That afternoon, after playing in a Little League baseball game and returning home, Marvin D., Jr., Mrs. Lawson’s son, prepared himself a sandwich and opened a Coca-Cola drink and began to watch television. He complained of the taste of the…